My concern is about the needlessness of the canvassed ruinous engagement which, if not nipped in the bud, is certain to drag West Africa, indeed the whole Africa back to the Stone Age and reduce the hapless owners of the continent to dregs and pauperised savages.
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The Economic Community of West African States has said it was more likely to use military force to restore constitutional order in Niger Republic.
ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Abdel-Fatau Musa stated this during an interview with the BBC on Sunday.
He stated this in a televised broadcast on Saturday night.
The delegation travelled to Niger in a last-ditch diplomatic effort to reach a peaceful solution with Niger Junta.
The regional block of ECOWAS is pushing for a peaceful resolution to the ouster of President Mohamed Bazoum.
Military staff of the three countries met in the Nigerien capital Niamey to decide on “concrete measures” in case ECOWAS chooses to “escalate a war,” according to local media reports on Saturday.
Niger military officers deposed President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26 and have defied calls from the United Nations, ECOWAS and Western powers to reinstate him, prompting West African heads of state to order the standby force to be assembled.
ECOWAS member states, according to Ghana’s army spokesman had initially mulled a military intervention against those who carried out Niger’s coup, and the bloc’s heads of state had ordered a military force to be readied to restore constitutional order during a special summit, but they said a peaceful resolution of the conflict should continue to be pursued.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has praised the solidarity of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) on the political impasse in the Republic of Niger.
A legal practitioner, Jide Ologun, has called the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU) to create a mechanism that would ensure good governance by member nations to address incessant coups in the continent.
This was disclosed in a press release signed by the Chamber’s President/Chairman of Council, Asiwaju Michael Olawale-Cole.
The spokesman said Bazoum and his other “accomplices” would have to stand trial.
What President Tinubu should be pushing now among his colleagues is the entrenchment of good governance
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, caught the attention of many Nigerians last week. On Wednesday, at the end of the plenary session, the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, oblivious he was still on live television, announced to his colleagues that the clerk of the National Assembly would send tokens to their various bank accounts to enable them enjoy their holiday. Aghast, few of his colleagues immediately approached him to call his attention to the gaffe and Akpabio had to withdraw his statement in an embarrassing attempt to switch “tokens” to “prayers”. I and many others had a good laugh after watching the clip that quickly went viral. Akpabio is a good man with a large heart. I met him while he was the Governor of Akwa Ibom state, and he came across as someone who is ready to go out of his way to make others comfortable.
They also spoke on why they did not accord the first team sent by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu the deserved attention
In an interview with Arise TV, Shehu said it is only an inexperienced President that will go to war after three months of resuming office.
Gumel told the News Agency of Nigeria in a telephone interview that the command was not aware of any protest by residents of the city against the proposed troops deployment.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had directed military forces of the member states to be on standby.
Some members called for actions that would nip in the bud military incursion into politics within the region, while others identified diplomacy and dialogue as the best approaches to tackling the crisis.